Dominika Slusna from our lab and Clara Soberats (now joining our lab coming from Antoni Gomila's group in Palma) have just won full-time PhD grants from the Generalitat and the Ministerio, respectively! Congratulations to you!!

Looking for convergence from different perspectives to build robust evidence for a theory: here a new attempt that combines Language/Speech evolution, Imitation theories and Autism. I will take this forward at the EVOLANG XII conference (Toruń, 16-19 April). Here is the abstract.

The relation between language and gesture has for quite some time been investigated in aphasia. Here a picture seems to be emerging: in aphasia, use of iconic gestures can increase as a compensatory mechanism for impaired language. However, there seems to be evidence that differences in this regard between aphasics and non-brain damaged people emerge particularly with word finding difficulties, not during normal speech. In this sense, iconic gesture and lexical concepts are linked. As aphasia...